The Costanza

Having recently attended a mind blowing concert by Green Day (Friday, December 18), I’ve realised that what I said earlier in this blog was correct.

Concerts are the way musicians make money. We paid $110 each for “standing” tickets, seating was more.

Then when we got there, we stood at the merch stand and I heard people buying $300+ of t-shirts, hoodies, cups, keyrings, whatever.

Both nights Green Day performed at the Vector Arena in Auckland were sold out, so 12-13,000 people, both nights.

Probably about a quarter bought merch but at $50 for an average tee with the band’s faces on it, that’s a lot of money being raked in.

Although Green Day sell a bunch of CD’s as they’ve been around for so long, I doubt that is their main income. If they sold out EVERY show they played, EVERYWHERE, imagine the income from that would be if that’s how much money they got from just Auckland.

But honestly, if I had it, I would have paid so much more to see these guys. It was not just three musicians singing and playing instruments, it was a full on show with fireworks and dancing and running around and crowd interaction.

Incredible.

Tory.

It has happened folks.

Our government, here in cozy little New Zealand has today released a revamped section 92A of the law.

This law applies to music piracy. In it, are fines for music pirates as well as internet suspensions.

Read ‘em and weap.

Begins next year, 2010.

Tory.

Lala is a website for American users which allows them to play any song or album once for free.
They add that song or album to their online collection and then if you want to listen to it again, you pay 10 cents and you can play that song an unlimited  amount of times.

Apple, who have their fingers in a lot of different pies have just purchased this online service.

The article mentions that if Apple really wants to take over the world, they need to get into online video streaming.

No one really knows what Apple’s aim is by purchasing Lala but I guess only time will tell.

Tory.